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And the first amendment of the 2010 ratings year goes to…
Channel Nine is officially holder of the first amendment of the 2010 ratings year after it issued a switch this morning.
It’s adding a repeat of The Mentalist to 9:30pm this Thursday, in place of a double episode of CSI: New York.
Now instead of two CSI episodes airing, it will just be one, “Communication Breakdown” moved to 10:30pm.
The Mentalist repeat is “Bloodshot” S1E16.
Of course late on Friday TEN also suddenly dumped Malcolm in the Middle in favour of more Simpsons repeats plus Biggest Loser replays, while Seven last week added a bunch …
Returning: The Simpsons
TEN is tweaking its early evening schedule by returning The Simpsons to its traditional 6pm slot as of Monday night.
It’s back with “Milhouse Doesn’t Live Here Anymore.”
Malcolm in the Middle will no longer screen at 6pm, as the network seeks to improve its evening share.
TEN is also adding The Biggest Loser repeats to 3pm weekdays bumping Judge Judy out of schedule, and where a 1 hr episode airs, Dharma & Greg is also out.
TEN’s tough Tuesday
Seven’s new cooking contest won its timeslot on night two as My Kitchen Rules increased to 1.18m viewers (up from 1.10m). With Nine committed to the Survivor finale (892,000 / 804,000) it gave Seven a window of opportunity.
The return of Grey’s Anatomy (1.21m) in the traditional Rafters slot was even better news. Together with its standard early night line-up, Seven took the night comfortably on 31.6% to Nine’s 27.1% and TEN’s 18.9%.
The best for TEN was So You Think You Can Dance Australia on 872,000 -down from Sunday’s premiere of 1.16m …
TEN: February 7 schedule
TEN’s schedule for the first week of ratings is confirmed.
The Biggest Loser, hosted by Hayley Lewis, is stripped across its week following The 7PM Project, leaving some shows to commence at 8pm and others at 8:30pm.
So You Think You Can Dance Australia will become a Wednesday night variety show, following its debut week of auditions beginning Sunday January 31st.
Talkin’ ‘Bout Your Generation shifts from Tuesdays to Sundays followed by The Good Wife premiere and House.
Bondi Rescue and Law and Order: SVU return.
And TEN is all but cutting its umbilical cord to …
The Office takes a holiday
Malcolm in the Middle is really wearing out the welcome mat on TEN.
A few amendments have come through for the week of January 24 which sees The Office out of schedule and a whole lot more of Malcolm. It also has a celebrity special, I Get That a Lot, which was first scheduled last March but never surfaced.
Tue 26
7:30pm I Get That A Lot (1 Hr Special)
“A one-hour special featuring stars that play practical jokes on unsuspecting fans in a case of mistaken celebrity. Working everyday jobs, our celebs confuse …
Panic stations as TEN dumps more shows
It’s ‘Panic Stations” at Network TEN this summer as another raft of shows gets the chop from its schedules.
Rules of Engagement, Don’t Forget the Lyrics, Glee (repeats) have been dumped -even the extra 30 minutes of The 7PM Project has been ditched from Fridays, despite the network promising longer episodes through summer.
In their place are more Accidentally on Purpose, repeats of Malcolm in the Middle, new Simpsons and movies.
TEN’s trigger-happy programming follows it cutting Supernatural, Stargate Universe and a number of other shows.
The network may be reacting to a …
Gone: Law and Order, Bondi Vet, The Hothouse.
TEN will hold over Accidentally on Purpose and The Office tonight to run an Oprah episode “Christmas At The White House.”
“In this hour-long special, Oprah will usher in the holidays at the White House, visiting President Obama & the First Lady as they prepare for their family’s first Christmas there. Oprah will also sit down with the First Couple, for an exclusive interview.”
Both US sitcoms remain in schedule on Thursday as well as returning next Tuesday.
Meanwhile it can’t score big on Fridays and is removing Bondi Vet repeats, plus Law and …
Gone: Numb3rs, Jamie Oliver, Bumped: Futurama, White Collar.
Major changes to TEN’s summer line-up.
Monday night’s Futurama to be replaced by Rules of Engagement, now to air in the Wednesday animation line up at 8pm where it was playing in repeat.
Supernatural is off next Monday to allow the double episode premiere of Stargate Universe at 8:30pm.
White Collar moves to 9:30pm replaced by a repeat of NCIS. So that means Numb3rs is out.
…oh and Jamie’s Family Christmas? The one where he was effectively going to be cooking turkey in January? That’s gone too. (Quote: “TEN will surely come to their …
Airdate: The Middle
New sitcom The Middle begins next Monday night on Nine, created by Eileen Heisler (Murphy Brown, How I Met Your Mother, Lipstick Jungle).
The show features Patricia Heaton (Everybody Loves Raymond, Back to You) as Frankie Heck, a middle-class, Midwestern mother of three, married to Mike Heck (Neil Flynn).
Mother of three, Frankie has a job selling cars at the town’s only surviving car dealership while her husband is a manager at the local quarry. In between juggling shifts and picking up fast food dinners eaten in front of the TV, Frankie …
Malcolm in the Middle on TEN
Neighbours will be replaced over summer by reruns of Malcolm in the Middle.
TEN will begin the series from the Pilot episode.
Malcolm introduces us to his world, dominated by omnipresent schoolyard bully Spath and made worse by his enforced friendship with Stevie, an asthmatic wheelchair genius.
It begins 6:30pm Monday December 7th.
Vale: Bea Arthur
Legendary actress Bea Arthur, star of the hit shows The Golden Girls and Maude died on Saturday. She was 86.
The tall, deep-voiced actress died peacefully at her Los Angeles home with her family at her side. She died of cancer.
Arthur was born Bernice Frankel in New York City in 1922. When she was 11, her family moved to Cambridge, Md., where her father opened a clothing store. At 12 she had grown to full height, and she dreamed of being a petite blond movie star like June Allyson. There was one …
Jack Thompson joins CBS comedy
Jack Thompson has signed to a new comedy pilot with CBS, The Karenskys.
Written by Malcolm in the Middle creator Linwood Boomer he will play an argumentative and tight-fisted father to Emily Atwood (Sasha Alexander), who returns to her hometown when her husband’s job relocates them and is reunited with her large, eccentric family, the Karenskys.
Mather Zickel (“Rachel Getting Married”) will play Emily’s husband Bill Atwood, a biology professor who feels the loud, “men-kissing” Karenskys bunch might be too close for comfort. Annie Potts will play Pearl Karensky, Emily’s cheerful and deeply …